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Pratibha Rawal

Pratibha Rawal (प्रतिभा रावल), Nepali minister and Rastriya Swatantra Party spokesperson, heads Land Management, Cooperatives and Federal Affairs ministries in the 2026 Balen Shah cabinet.

Pratibha Ray

Pratibha Ray is an Indian novelist who writes in Odia, best known for the feminist Mahabharata retelling Yajnaseni and for winning the Jnanpith Award in 2011.

Pratibha Satpathy

Pratibha Satpathy is an Indian Odia-language poet, critic, translator, and editor, born in 1945 in Cuttack district, Odisha, who received the Padma Shri in 2025.

Pratibimb

Pratibimb (प्रतिबिंब, "Reflection") is a Marathi play by Mahesh Elkunchwar, part of the theater of the absurd, in which an office worker wakes to find his reflection missing.

Pratibimbalu

Pratibimbalu (ప్రతిబింబాలు), also spelled Prathibimbaalu, is a 1982-shot Telugu drama starring Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Jayasudha, directed by K. S. Prakash Rao and Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, finally released in November 2022 after a 40-year delay, distinct from the unrelated Marathi film Pratibimb.

Pratidwandi

Pratidwandi (The Adversary), 1970 Bengali drama by Satyajit Ray based on Sunil Gangopadhyay's novel; first of the Calcutta trilogy, starring Dhritiman Chatterjee as unemployed Siddhartha; National Award winner, restored in 4K for Cannes Classics 2022.

Pratiggya

Pratiggya (प्रतिज्ञा) is a 1975 Hindi action comedy directed by Dulal Guha, starring Dharmendra, Hema Malini, and Ajit, with Laxmikant-Pyarelal music and the hit song Main Jat Yamla Pagla Deewana; a Super-Hit that inspired the 2011 film's title.

Pratigya

Pratigya (प्रतिज्ञा, "The Vow") is a 1927 Hindi social novel by Munshi Premchand that takes widow remarriage as its central problem through Amritray and Poorna.

Pratihara dynasty (प्रतिहार राजवंश)

Pratihara dynasty (प्रतिहार राजवंश), also called Gurjara-Pratiharas or Pratiharas of Kannauj: medieval Indian dynasty (c. 730–1036 CE) ruling northern India from Ujjain and Kannauj, famed for defeating Arab invaders and winning the Tripartite Struggle.

Pratihara dynasty of Mandor

The Pratihara dynasty of Mandor (परिहार) was a Rajput ruling lineage centered on Mandore, near modern Jodhpur in Marwar, recorded from about the 6th century CE until Mandore passed to the Rathores in 1395.

Pratijna Yaugandharayana

Pratijna Yaugandharayana is a Sanskrit play of the Trivandrum corpus ascribed to Bhasa, in which the minister Yaugandharayana vows to free his captive king, Udayana, who never appears on stage.

Pratik Gandhi

Pratik Gandhi, Gujarati theatre and film actor from Surat, broke through nationally as Harshad Mehta in Scam 1992 (2020), then led Hindi films Madgaon Express, Do Aur Do Pyaar, and the Gandhi series.

Pratik P. Pandharipande

Pratik P. Pandharipande, also published as Pratik Pandharipande, is an anesthesiologist and critical care researcher at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known for research on ICU sedation and delirium.

Pratik Poddar

Pratik Poddar is an Indian venture capital investor and Partner at Nexus Venture Partners, an India-US fund, where he has led investments in startups including Turtlemint, Rapido, and Quizizz.

Pratik Shah

Pratik Shah is an AI-in-healthcare researcher and assistant professor at UC Irvine who previously led the Machine Learning for Health Research Program at the MIT Media Lab.

Pratik Sharma

Pratik Sharma is a general officer of the Indian Army who previously served as Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Strategy) and Director General of Military Operations.

Pratika Rawal

Pratika Rawal (Pratika Pradeep Rawal, born 2000) is an Indian right-handed opening batter and off-spin bowler; ODI debutant December 2024, fastest woman to 1,000 ODI runs, and 308-run scorer in India's 2025 World Cup win.

Pratikno

Pratikno, born in 1962, is an Indonesian politician and professor of political science who served as Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Cultural Affairs under President Prabowo Subianto and previously led Gadjah Mada University.

Pratima Mondal

Pratima Mondal, born in 1966 in West Bengal, is an Indian politician of the Trinamool Congress who has represented Jaynagar in the Lok Sabha since 2014, winning a third term in 2024.

Pratimanataka

Pratimanataka (प्रतिमानाटकम्, The Statue Play) is a seven-act Sanskrit drama attributed to Bhasa, drawn from the Ramayana and named for the statue-house scene where Bharata learns of his father's death.

Pratītyasamutpāda

Pratītyasamutpāda (Pāli paṭiccasamuppāda, dependent origination/dependent arising) is the core Buddhist doctrine that phenomena arise only in dependence on causes and conditions, expressed in the twelve nidānas from ignorance to aging-and-death, later identified by Nāgārjuna with emptiness.

Prato, Tuscany

Prato, Tuscany: second-largest Tuscan city (198,327 residents, 2026) on the Bisenzio River near Florence, capital of the province of Prato, home to Europe's largest textile district, a large Chinese community, and a pioneering circular textile recycling economy.

Pratt & Whitney

Pratt & Whitney, also known as Pratt and Whitney, is an American aircraft engine maker founded in 1925, known for the R-2800 piston engine and the Geared Turbofan.

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is a Canadian aircraft engine manufacturer in Longueuil, Quebec, founded in 1928 as a subsidiary of RTX and known for the PT6 engine.

Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6

The Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 is a turboprop and turboshaft engine family produced since 1963, with over 64,000 delivered and 500 million flight hours across 155 aircraft types.

Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100

The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 is a family of turboprop engines, in service since 1984, that powers regional airliners like the Dash 8 and ATR 72.

Pratt & Whitney Canada PW300

The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW300 is a family of two-shaft turbofan engines in the 4,700 to 8,000-pound thrust class for business and regional jets, entering service in 1992.

Pratt & Whitney Canada PW500

The Pratt & Whitney Canada PW500 is a family of turbofan engines for business jets, in service since 1997 and powering the Cessna Citation Excel and Embraer Phenom 300.

Pratt & Whitney F100

The Pratt & Whitney F100, originally designated JTF22, is an afterburning turbofan jet engine that has powered the US Air Force's F-15 since 1974 and also powers the F-16.

Pratt & Whitney F119

The Pratt & Whitney F119 is a twin-spool, afterburning turbofan engine, made by Pratt & Whitney, that powers the US Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter.